In a joint video message delivered with Martin Makary, MD, MPH, the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner (FDA), and Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PHD, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Kennedy called the change in policy policy.
While not explaining why pregnant people should not obtain vaccination, the three health leaders have cited a lack of evidence that healthy children need suddenly and said most countries have ceased to recommend it for children.
“We are now one more step to make President Trump’s promise to make America again healthy,” said Kennedy.
The latter decision comes a week after the FDA announced that it would recommend the COVVI-19 shot only for adults aged 65 and over and those who are more likely to become seriously sick in the virus.
Professional medical groups express serious concerns
“It is a concern that this decision was made outside a well -established process which was previously open to the public and relied on a solid examination of scientific evidence,” explains Tina Tan, MD, president of IDSA and the attending physician of the Ann & Robert Lurie children’s hospital.
Dr. Tan, who is also a teacher of pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, says that infants and healthy children are at risk of major complications COVVI-19. For example, the Pediatric Long COVID – also called MIS -C, or multi -system inflammatory syndrome in children – can occur two to six weeks after the coronavirus infection and develop even if the symptoms are light or non -existent.
“Long Cavid can affect development in infants and children,” she says. “These are serious complications.”
Tan considers new recommendations to be particularly disturbing for mothers. Pregnancy is a well-established risk factor in severe COVID-19 complications, including premature work and birth, preeclampsia, heart lesions, blood clots, hypertension and kidney lesions, according to IDSA.
“As an ob-gyns who treat the patients every day, we have seen in the first hand how dangerous COVVI-19 infection can be during pregnancy and for newborns who depend on maternal antibodies of the protection vaccine,” wrote Steven J. Fleischman, MD, the president of ACOG, in the press release. “It is very clear that the COVVI-19 infection during pregnancy can be catastrophic and lead to major disability, and this can cause devastating consequences for families.”
A new policy can limit access to coated vaccines
HHS has not provided information on the criteria used to define healthy children and pregnant people, it is therefore not clear who should or should not be vaccinated according to the new tips.
Even if COVVI-19 vaccines remain available in pharmacies and doctors’ offices, children and pregnant people may not be able to afford them if their insurance companies abandon the coverage. Many health insurance companies follow federal recommendations to determine drugs and vaccines to be covered, says Tan.
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